Inverted Buddha Marcus Aurelius

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Recently, an old buddy casually dropped a remark on Twitter that boy howdy he'd adore a Standing Buddha Marcus Aurelius for his living room. You'd be scraping support plastic off the underside of this model for days if you printed it straight out, but thanks to a nifty trick I picked up at the Make: Magazine 2015 Digital Fabrication Shootout, the need for supports is significantly reduced. All you have to do is rotate the model roughly 225° so its feet are pointing upwards and manually add a few supports in your preferred software. This technique should work for many humanoid models. I also added a circular base. A little super glue or epoxy should hold everything together. Thanks to Al Billings for creating the original model.